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Q-Games showing new game at Casual Connect next week
On July 21, during the Casual Connect conference, developer Jesse Venbrux will reveal a new project he's working on at Q-Games, creators of the PixelJunk series as well as X-Scape, Trajectile and other DSiWare games. Q-Games head Dylan Cuthbert teased the upcoming announcement on Twitter, sharing the above screenshot. We declare it to be ... adorable! Before joining Q-Games, Venbrux created the Karoshi series of suicide puzzle-platformers, as well as They Need to Be Fed for iOS, Android, and PSP (which is the main focus of the presentation). It seems safe to assume that this new project will be somehow classifiable as "casual," given the venue.
They Need To Be Fed jumping to PSP this summer
Jesse Venbrux must be quite proud of his indie platformer, They Need To Be Fed. Not only did he recently win the top prize of the YoYo Games competition, he's earned a $1,000 cash prize, and a deal to port the game over to PSP. The platformer can be best described as a 2D version of Super Mario Galaxy, with players navigating the unique gravity of each platform to reach their goal: to be eaten. If that doesn't make much sense, you can wait for the PSP version, planned for release this summer, so you can see for yourself. Or, you can download the PC game here. (Or, you can just watch the video we placed after the break.) [Via Pocket Gamer]
